On Friday 22 May at 11.00, at the Palermo headquarters of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanologists (INGV) - via Ugo La Malfa 153 - the press conference will take place to present the experimental and advanced training phase of the SIGLOD-Intelligent System of support for the Management and Localization of Landfills and waste management plants (MIUR PON 4a2_F-ABSIDE, Smart Cities and Communities), which sees among its partners, in addition to INGV, the University of Palermo, SMART Helicopters and the Consortium for research and applications of innovative technologies (CRATI). "SIGLOD, co-financed by the European Union (EU)", explains Massimo Chiappini, Director of the Roma2 section of INGV and coordinator of the project, "is aimed at the rapid identification of areas to be allocated to new waste dumps according to the classification established by the European Union of 1999, to the identification of illegal landfills, the detection of radioactive contamination and the dangers associated with the infiltration of pollutants, the control of the safety parameters of active, abandoned or illegal landfills". SIGLOD is the decision-making support to the public administration for the correct location and management of new landfills and for the reclamation of existing ones, thus guaranteeing adequate quality levels in the offer of land management services. “The project starts from the awareness that many wastes remain active for a few decades producing biogas, used as an energy resource; numerous highly contaminating sewage (leachate) for the soil is also produced”, continues Chiappini. "Failure to comply with current legislation combined with the particular geological and hydrogeological situation of the aquifers means that pollutants may infiltrate the groundwater". "The experimental activities of the SIGLOD project", says Rocco Favara, Director of the Palermo Section of INGV and responsible for the project's training activity, "can be divided into two strands: characterization of the territory with techniques, scientific methodologies and avant-garde instruments, to which the University of Palermo has also made a significant scientific contribution; converging activities in the testing of the system for providing services to the end user through a Multi Criterial Expert Spatial Decision Support System (MC-ESDSS). Innovative technologies for the location of landfills integrate data acquired from ground monitoring networks and via helicopter aerial platforms, simulating evolutionary scenarios for the management of new landfills or the reclamation of existing ones. Ultimately, a Smart Waste Environment System.
Link to program and images: http://bit.ly/1IQSrT3
Brief presentation of the SIGLOD project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Xh4bph5UU